Agriculture

Grade school students learned about farming and animals from FFA students.

Forreston High School students invited grade school students to learn more about agriculture at Forreston FFA’s Ag Day, held on the front lawn of the grade school on a sunny, warm and windy morning Friday, April 12, 2024. Students ventured out from their classrooms in 25-minute intervals to pet the animals and climb on three farm tractors that were also part of the event – all in an effort to learn more about agriculture.

With slow-moving vehicles on roadways this spring, the driving public and farmers should be extra careful to prevent crashes and ensure everyone gets home safely at the end of the day.

Annual event draws farmers from across the region.

The driver of the pickup truck that investigators say failed to stop at an intersection, resulting in the death of his three passengers, was cited for failure to stop and for violating his graduated license restrictions.

A brown bovine from southern Brazil has made history as the first transgenic cow capable of producing human insulin in her milk.

While the two broods of cicadas will emerge at the same time, there will likely be only a few places in central Illinois, around Springfield, where they will emerge in the same area, according to the University of Illinois Extension.

During the eclipse itself, animals will often react either like it’s sunset or a storm is coming. It might create some confusion for animals outdoors, but animals indoors might not notice the difference, she said.

The structure on fire was located at the end of a long lane, north of Lightsville Road. Firefighters battled strong winds and intermittent rain and snow as they fought the fire.

One person was killed Wednesday morning when the tractor that he was driving was hit by a semitractor-trailer on Route 40 at the intersection of Route 172/Star Road south of Rock Falls, according to a news release from Whiteside County Sheriff John Booker.

An ordinance that would allow up to six chickens to be kept in unincorporated single-family residential areas of Lee County is going before the Planning Commission on April 1.

The Lee County Farm Bureau, in partnership with the Bureau, Marshall-Putnam, Whiteside, and Stark county farm bureaus, Ag View FS and Growmark, are offering pollinator seeds at a reduced price through April 12,

An estimated 35 local school representatives attended the Cultivating Connections in Agriculture symposium March 1 at Tetten’s Grain in Dixon to learn more about the value of agriculture education and hear strategies for creating comprehensive agriculture programs.

“Our farming community would like to thank members of the Ogle County Board for showing their support by adopting this resolution,” said Keith Poole, Ogle County Farm Bureau President.

Nineteen Illinois farms will receive a combined $1.8 million in grants to fund infrastructure projects aimed at developing their ability to produce and distribute food around the state as part of the Local Food and Infrastructure Grant Program.